Zohreh Alizadeh Elizei - PhD candidate, School of Industrial Engineering (SIE) Iran University of Science & Technology, Narmak, Tehran, Iran
Seyed Jafar Sadjadi - Professor, School of Industrial Engineering (SIE), Iran University of Science & Technology , Narmak, Tehran, Iran

The present research is an integration of the Scopus database loaded and queried by the Bibliometrix software package, through its interface, Biblioshiny. It provides a structural analysis routine to analyze a large corpus of unstructured information to extract trends over time and themes researched, to detect the most productive scholars and institutions, and to show a prospect of the on-going research in accident analysis. ۲۰۰۰ documents from ۵۴۲ sources consisting of research articles, books, conference papers, etc., published from ۱۹۷۴ to ۲۰۱۹ was loaded into the Bibliometrix package. ۴۹۴۵ authors were contributing to this research defining a total ۴۱۴۶ keywords. An overview of accident research and safety studies carried on during the past forty years through the most contributing authors and affiliations is depicted.

Accident analysis, Safety, Scientometrics, Bibliometrics